Fate. Or a little something like that.
May. 6th, 2005 05:03 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
saifaiHubby got in bed last night and asked me a question, completely out of the blue. He said, "Have you ever just done something without thinking about it, and not even know why you're doing it? But you do it anyway, and later you can't even explain why you've done it?"
I guess that happened to him yesterday on his lunch break. He just up and turned into a local shopping complex. It's not one he usually shops at. He turns in and stops about half way into the driveway of the parking lot and asks himself, "Why am I here?" He kind of shrugged to himself and went driving through the complex.
He found a place to park, and walked around to the shop nearest to where he parked. As it turns out, it was a book store. He's usually the type that just goes nuts in a book store. He can spend hours just browsing through all the various selections. I took him with me to buy my mother a birthday present back in early April and had to literally drag him out by his coat tails to get him away from the books so I could go home and bake the cake for my Mom.
Oddly enough, in this store he didn't browse. He just walked straight to the back area of the shop and picked up a book of the shelf. He looked at the title and it was some book about prophecies.
It's not quite what you would think it is though. It's actually a church book, but it was more of a book that theorizes what would happen to the country and other parts of the international community should things progress as they currently. I'm talking mostly politically here.
See, I've always felt that the world runs in cycles. It can only go so long in one time period before it cleanses itself and begins anew. It's always done things like that. Not just nature, but people too. History seems to often repeat itself.
Bearing that in mind, and after hubby quoted a few sections from the book to me, I explained to him why I dislike President Bush. On a side note here, my hubby is a right winger. Seriously no grey area there for him. Rarely causes a disagreement between us as we know very well there are just some subjects we just will never agree on. I can't call myself either right or left wing. I'm not even an Independent or Green party. I just go wherever I think is right at the time. Needless to say, we just don't have the same policital views. I think it also goes without saying that he adores President Bush, where as I just hate the man.
But I digress. After hearing a few things from this book, I commented to him on why I don't like Bush. The thing that I dislike about him most is that he appeals to a section of our general population that tend towards extreme views. I'm not going to diss on anyone's views. That's just not the way I am. People in this country have a right to their own beliefs. It's the way we set this all up. Freedom from persecution.
However, with extreme views that Bush promotes I see a changing of the tides. When people have their freedoms infringed upon, and they have such strong views in one area or another, tensions are likely to rise. You've got people banning gay men from donating sperm, members of churches being kicked out from their political views, and people in other countries being murdered based on their political views. It's rather in the extreme end of things all over the place. And we have one man to thank for contributing to all that.
He welcomes it. And that scares me.
I don't want to sound like some dooms day theorist. I'm really not. I'm just a realist. Think about it for a moment. You have things progressing in a forward direction to the extreme right of the political scale. Do you see anyone seriously stopping that from happening? It's not like people aren't trying. They truly are. You need balance in this world, especially in a country such as ours where political views are so vastly different from one person to the next. When you get a great majority of folks leaning towards one side, people get angry when the other side is not only neglected but openly flamed for their opinions.
How do you suppose this country will run in say 50 years from now if things continue on their current trajectory? Not a pretty picture is it. At least not to me it's not. Honestly, I think that some day we'll see another civil war. I just don't think you can seriously do the things our government are doing, threatening the very values of our constitution, and not expect a kick back.
No matter what your political beliefs are, it just doesn't matter here. Granted I don't like Bush. I don't agree with him. But that's not the point. Even if I was a right-winger like my hubby, I would still feel this way. There's too much tipping of the scale. The balance is off. The gap will be made up in some way. It's just the way nature works. Population grows too large, we get a predator that will come along and cull the herd. Even some of the most arid regions of the world get a rainy season.
And I think ours is coming. We've been dry to long.
I won't even get into what else the book predicted. It was very much along the same lines of my thinking. I had a bit of a problem with some of it, but some dreams I had answered some of my questions for me. Ask, and ye shall receive... as the saying goes.
So. That's my thoughts in a nutshell. Probably will be the one and only time you'll ever see me talking about anything political on my journal. It's just not usually my thing. I guess I just had to share my observations though. Mostly I just like to lurk.
I guess that happened to him yesterday on his lunch break. He just up and turned into a local shopping complex. It's not one he usually shops at. He turns in and stops about half way into the driveway of the parking lot and asks himself, "Why am I here?" He kind of shrugged to himself and went driving through the complex.
He found a place to park, and walked around to the shop nearest to where he parked. As it turns out, it was a book store. He's usually the type that just goes nuts in a book store. He can spend hours just browsing through all the various selections. I took him with me to buy my mother a birthday present back in early April and had to literally drag him out by his coat tails to get him away from the books so I could go home and bake the cake for my Mom.
Oddly enough, in this store he didn't browse. He just walked straight to the back area of the shop and picked up a book of the shelf. He looked at the title and it was some book about prophecies.
It's not quite what you would think it is though. It's actually a church book, but it was more of a book that theorizes what would happen to the country and other parts of the international community should things progress as they currently. I'm talking mostly politically here.
See, I've always felt that the world runs in cycles. It can only go so long in one time period before it cleanses itself and begins anew. It's always done things like that. Not just nature, but people too. History seems to often repeat itself.
Bearing that in mind, and after hubby quoted a few sections from the book to me, I explained to him why I dislike President Bush. On a side note here, my hubby is a right winger. Seriously no grey area there for him. Rarely causes a disagreement between us as we know very well there are just some subjects we just will never agree on. I can't call myself either right or left wing. I'm not even an Independent or Green party. I just go wherever I think is right at the time. Needless to say, we just don't have the same policital views. I think it also goes without saying that he adores President Bush, where as I just hate the man.
But I digress. After hearing a few things from this book, I commented to him on why I don't like Bush. The thing that I dislike about him most is that he appeals to a section of our general population that tend towards extreme views. I'm not going to diss on anyone's views. That's just not the way I am. People in this country have a right to their own beliefs. It's the way we set this all up. Freedom from persecution.
However, with extreme views that Bush promotes I see a changing of the tides. When people have their freedoms infringed upon, and they have such strong views in one area or another, tensions are likely to rise. You've got people banning gay men from donating sperm, members of churches being kicked out from their political views, and people in other countries being murdered based on their political views. It's rather in the extreme end of things all over the place. And we have one man to thank for contributing to all that.
He welcomes it. And that scares me.
I don't want to sound like some dooms day theorist. I'm really not. I'm just a realist. Think about it for a moment. You have things progressing in a forward direction to the extreme right of the political scale. Do you see anyone seriously stopping that from happening? It's not like people aren't trying. They truly are. You need balance in this world, especially in a country such as ours where political views are so vastly different from one person to the next. When you get a great majority of folks leaning towards one side, people get angry when the other side is not only neglected but openly flamed for their opinions.
How do you suppose this country will run in say 50 years from now if things continue on their current trajectory? Not a pretty picture is it. At least not to me it's not. Honestly, I think that some day we'll see another civil war. I just don't think you can seriously do the things our government are doing, threatening the very values of our constitution, and not expect a kick back.
No matter what your political beliefs are, it just doesn't matter here. Granted I don't like Bush. I don't agree with him. But that's not the point. Even if I was a right-winger like my hubby, I would still feel this way. There's too much tipping of the scale. The balance is off. The gap will be made up in some way. It's just the way nature works. Population grows too large, we get a predator that will come along and cull the herd. Even some of the most arid regions of the world get a rainy season.
And I think ours is coming. We've been dry to long.
I won't even get into what else the book predicted. It was very much along the same lines of my thinking. I had a bit of a problem with some of it, but some dreams I had answered some of my questions for me. Ask, and ye shall receive... as the saying goes.
So. That's my thoughts in a nutshell. Probably will be the one and only time you'll ever see me talking about anything political on my journal. It's just not usually my thing. I guess I just had to share my observations though. Mostly I just like to lurk.
